TITLE: Daredevil The Man Without Fear! vol. 1, issue #10
YEAR: October 1965
COMPANY: Marvel Comics
EDITING: Stan Lee
LAYOUTS: Bob Powell
SCRIPT and ART: Wally Wood
LETTERING: Artie Simek
An evil mysterious being known as The Organizer has assembled villains and gave them villains based on their skills. Outfitting them with animal uniforms, this group of villains are known as The Organization and their goal, to discredit and undermine the city government and take control of the entire administration!
Some of you may be saying “WTF?” but that’s the beauty of the silver age, a time where war was the in the minds of many, while for comic books, the villains wanted to undermine local government and the administration.
And as crime wave has ran rampant, Foggy gives good news to the group and that he has received the nomination of the Reform Party to become the city’s next D.A.
And they will be hosting a party for him on a yacht.
Meanwhile, a beautiful woman from Foggy’s past shows up and could it be, Karen Page (who works as a secretary for Matt and Foggy’s law firm) is getting jealous? Why is that? Does she like Foggy?
Meanwhile, Matt sense trouble and when he goes to instigate, he sees a man in a frog suit and the Frog-man defeats Daredevil with a concussion grenade.
As Daredevil goes after the Organization the following day and in the process, his battle with the them ends up getting him in trouble and being under the suspicion of police of robberies around the city. Of course, this doesn’t sit well with Daredevil who wants to stop the Organization and clear his name.
At a dinner party with many politicians in attendance, Deborah is kidnapped by the Organization, will Daredevil be able to find out where there HQ and save Deborah? And will Karen figure out why she is becoming jealous over Foggy?
The whole concept is quite hokey but appropriate for the time. Daredevil and his inexperience as a hero shows in this issue, so he wasn’t perfect. You also had the dramatic situation with the love triangle between Karen Page, Matt and Foggy developing.
While The Organizer and the members of the Organization were lame antagonists, I was impressed about how much was incorporated to the story.
Recommended!